Deadly Precision of Modern Submarine Mines
"Submarine mines are by no means new," said a British naval officer in the course of a recent interview. "They were used a generation ago by the…
Continued on Trove, page 38 →Mining & the mines, 1905
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Gold From Sea Water
The ambitions scheme of the London chemist to win fabulous wealth by ext[?] gold from sea water in nor altogether a new project in Australia…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Submarine Mines at Vladivostock
Owing to the heavy gales prevailing around Vladivostock several of the Russian mines have became detached and have drifted down to the…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Chinese on the Rand. Strike in One of the Mines
A large body of the recently-imported Chinese, employed in the Randiantein mine, have struck work through some grievances under which they…
Continued on Trove, page 3 →Lost the Coal-posts
In those football grounds which lie in the shadow of the great metropolis, it is not an uncommon thing for the referee to be compelled to sound a premature "no-side"…
Continued on Trove, page 1 →The Romance of "Old Men" in Mining
The records of engineering hold few more romantic and interesting episodes than the discoveries made in the modern mines of ancient and…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mine Explosion in Illinois
Thirty-four fatalities have resulted to non-unionists from the explosion in Josef Loiter's mine at Ziagler, Illinois, which is thought to have been…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Drifting Mines. London, April 2
In consequence of severe gales that have been raging in the Sea of Japan, many mines that were laid down by the Russians for the defence of Vladivostock have broken…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →A Mine Explosion. Outrage Suspected. London, April 4
An explosion occurred yesterday at the mine of Mr. Joseph Leiter, at Zeigler, Illinois. It entombed about 30 men, and 15 are reported to have been killed. The…
Continued on Trove, page 37 →Special Notes for Special Readers. His Australia a Heart of Gold?
If the Aritunga Gold Field is really "hills of gold" as described by the per[?]ved correspondent of the Daily Mail, London, it will exercise a very important int[?]nce…
Continued on Trove, page 4 →Housekeeper. Egohojaising Coal
HINTS on how to economise coal are generally more or less accepted on the middle olass home and I gladly pass on a hint given to me a few days are by one…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →The Ovens Gold Field
The veteran Mr. David Reid, of Moorwatha, Howlong, has written an account the year 1852. Mr. Reid arrived in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Miners Stop Day Case
The Judicial Committee of the House of Lords has dismissed the appeal by the South Wales Miners' Federation against the decision of the courts in…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →INTERCOLONIAL. Mining at Corryong
Mr. C. Dyring, one of the directors of the ToWong Gold Mining Company, has (says the "Courier") been at Corryong for a few days, inspecting the progress…
Continued on Trove, page 28 →Russian Coal Supplies. Transhipment Refused
The Governor-General of Saigon, Mr. Bean, is following the instructions of the French Government to observe strictly the rules relating to neutrals,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Floating Mines. London, April 20
The floating mines sown by the Russians during their occupancy of Port Arthur are still a menace in the neighbourhood. One of them has just destroyed…
Continued on Trove, page 26 →Hunting for Pirate Gold
The New World's will-o'-the-wisp, pirate gold," has still many followers. Expeditions are continually being fitted out at ports along the Atlantic seaboard to search…
Continued on Trove, page 8 →Electricity From Coal
A Chicago inventor, Hugo Jone, is said to have hit upon a scheme of utilising the coal in producing a current, thereby dispensing with boilers engines, dynamos,…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →General Cables. London, Sunday. a Colliery Explosion
A fearful explosion has occurred at Rochester, U.S.A., in the Pittsburg Coal Company's mine, Dubois, by which sixteen coal miners were killed…
Continued on Trove, page 2 →Mining. Between the Nalican and Splitters' Creek
On Saturday Mr Archie M'Eucharn, a very old miner in the Albury district, was prospecting in the hills between the Nailoun and Splitters'…
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